According to verse 15, the “covering” referred to is long hair. Therefore, according to this passage, it is a shame and dishonor to Christ for a man to have long hair. There is no place in the Bible that even insinuates that Jesus had long hair. Sodomite homosexuals such as Michelangelo painted Jesus to look effeminate and to have long hair in order to make him fit their own queer image.

These same type of paintings have also given people the idea that “Jesus did not wear pants.” Some have even made utterly ridiculous and bizarre statements such as, “pants had not been invented yet,” or “they didn’t have pants back then.” According to these “scholars,” the men of the past who built the pyramids and Stonehenge just hadn’t thought of pants yet!

What I believe is based upon the Bible, not “historical evidence,” but the historical record also proves that men in the ancient Middle East wore pants. For example, at the famous battle of Thermopylae (480BC), every historian reports that the Persian (Iranian) soldiers were wearing pants down to their ankles, while the homosexual, perverted Spartans were wearing short skirts or even less!

'We Icelandic men are strong - because we do what our womenfolk tell us to!'

-Jon-Pall Sigmarsson

And never mind that he's wearing a - *gasp* - 'short skirt', in the form of a kilt, here's a man wearing... *shock, horror!*

...an Apron?!!!111ONE1eleventyone1

Mitsugu Akimoto, a.k.a. Chiyonofuji*, former Yokozuna, now head of the Kokonoe Sumo heya (or 'stable'), and member of the Japan Sumo Association.

I love the smell of annihilated arguments in the morning. Smells like... victory.

@Evilution Teacher

"Ok, men in short skirts and long hair - sissies, not masculine - check. 1. my highlander ancestors would like a word with you 2. and what does that make me as a heterosexual woman who thinks well muscled hairy legs in kilts are hot? I think Steven Anderson is either jealous that he couldn't pull it off - skinny man legs in kilts definitely not hot - or like others have posted he is a closet case."

Arnold Schwarzenegger as 'Conan the Barbarian'. Kevin Sorbo as 'Hercules'. Just those examples alone, blows Steviepoos' argument not just out of the water, but the space-time continuum as a whole. He'd better not see what Sigourney Weaver (Ellen Ripley) looks like in "Alien III", if he knows what's good for him.

"EDIT: From his bio on the church website "He holds no college degree but has well over 100 chapters of the Bible memorized word-for-word, including approximately half of the New Testament." WOW! He has stuff memorized, neat. This verifies that he has no critical thinking skills - a must for a leader."

In that case, you'd have thought that taking the relevant course(s) at the Philosophy & Theoloy departments at Oxford/Cambridge University(ies), a doctorate, nay (with the further years of study) a Professorship in Theology would be a breeze for him, surely? To the end of becoming one of the world's eminent academics & scholars of Theology.

So why doesn't he?

...oh yes, that's right. Full study of the Bible - along with all the various texts in Latin, Greek & Aramaic - to say nothing of all the omitted ones (One word: Apocrypha), would give him a full understanding of the Bible and it's meaning. The very last thing a fundie like him needs - if he values his 'faith'.

Clearly, Jesus was an upstanding heterosexual conservative anglo-saxon protestant who wore pants, had short hair, hated hippies, and worked for a living, right?

Except that Jesus was a deviant in his day, was Israeli, almost certainly wore robes like the rest of the guys back then, traveled around hanging out with twelve other men (and may I remind you only one female prostitute, sometimes, a little), and didn't really work at all. Instead, he went around philosophizing. In fact he didn't even write a word of it, he had other people do it for him! Let's face it, all Jesus did all day was sit around and think. What a great work ethic! See how conservative and American Jesus is?

Seriously. You're spouting a model of sexuality that was invented by white-supremacists and based on the notion that everyone else was barely human and hence more "natural" (for a particular ideological construction of "nature").

Definitely not Poe, this guy is for real, a 24 carat fundie. He's here:

http://www.faithfulwordbaptist.org/index.html

and he's insane. What's worrying is the size of his congregation, especially as it's likely to increase: Pastor Anderson condemns all forms of birth control in as well as outside marriage. Makes the Pope look like a liberal softy on the subject.